Day: May 18, 2015

The Beauty in the Black Veil

This sublime fragment of a longer qasidah (ode) about a saint who falls madly in love with a beautiful maiden in a black veil (recalling the story of Shaykh San’an ) is sublimely performed in Mauritanian style by Dimi Mint Abba:   Translation: Tell the beauty in the black veil What have you done to the…